Forum di Milano (Unipol Forum)
Three kilometres outside Milan sits a 40,000 sq metre arena that has hosted world championships in ice hockey, boxing, figure skating, and volleyball — all in the same building.
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Built in 1990 in the Milanofiori complex and winner of the 1994 European Prize for Architecture for sports venues, this 12,800-seat arena is the EuroLeague home court of AX Armani Exchange Milan. It's one of only two Italian venues in the European Arenas Association network, alongside Rome's Palazzo dello Sport.
What to look for
- Four tiers of seating plus luxury suites — capacity was expanded from 11,500 to 12,700 during a 2014 renovation timed to the EuroLeague Final Four held here that year
- The court of AX Armani Exchange Milan, one of Italy's top professional basketball clubs competing in both the EuroLeague and Italian Serie A
- Scale of the Milanofiori complex — the arena footprint alone covers 40,000 square metres
Located in Assago, 3 km outside Milan; check the schedule for AX Armani Exchange Milan home games or the annual La Grande Sfida tennis exhibition held each Christmas since 2011.
Forum di Milano (Unipol Forum) is one of 35 sights worth the detour in Milan, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Milan pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Milan
- San Siro — Giuseppe Meazza StadiumTwo rival clubs, one ground: the 75,817-seat arena where Milan's football fault line runs.
- Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano)Construction started in 1386 and the final details were finished in 1965 — the city couldn't stop adding to it.
- La ScalaThe gallery gods who booed tenor Roberto Alagna off stage mid-Aida in 2006 still haunt the loggione — the cheapest seats in opera's most feared house.
- Santa Maria delle GrazieThe wall Leonardo painted on was sand-bagged against Allied bombs in 1943 — and held.
- Sforza CastleLeonardo da Vinci painted the ceiling here. Bramante did the walls down the hall.
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele IIThe direct ancestor of every enclosed shopping mall on earth — and there is still a worn hole in the floor where Milanese spin a heel for luck.